MS - The Theory of Sleep

MS - The Theory of Sleep

Do you get the proper amount of sleep?

Multiple Choice

TRUE OR FALSE: Neuroscientists are scientists who study the brain.

• True

• False

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TRUE OR FALSE: People's brains make electrical waves during sleep.

• True

• False

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TRUE OR FALSE: We sleep heavily in the type of sleep called "dream sleep".

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

TRUE OR FALSE: The student volunteers slept before looking at the pictures.

• True

• False

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TRUE OR FALSE: If the scientists woke up the students during dream sleep, they remembered more information than volunteers who didn't sleep.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

TRUE OR FALSE: Dream sleep helps us learn things we are slowly forgetting.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

TRUE OR FALSE: Six hours of sleep doesn't help us learn.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

TRUE OR FALSE: Sleeping can help you remember phone numbers you have forgotten.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

TRUE OR FALSE: People's brains make electrical waves during sleep.

• True

• False

Dreaming in black and white

Have you ever dreamt in black and white? Lots of people do! Up to 12% of people in the world dream in black and white. Scientists think that this is because they have spent a lot of time watching black and white TV when they were young.

Humans spend 1/3 of their life asleep

Of course, this depends on how old a person is when they die and how much they sleep, but let's say you turn 75 tomorrow. There's a huge chance you've spent 25 years sleeping. That seems like a lot, doesn't it?

Giraffes need to sleep less than 2 hours

Apparently, giraffes don't need to sleep a lot, but the brown bat needs almost 20 hours of sleep in one day. Are you closer to the giraffe or the brown bat?